Jeannette (II)

Henri Matisse · Issy-les-Moulineaux, January - March (?) 1910

Jeannette, the second. Barely a year on and the modelling has coarsened deliberately: the surface is worked in lumps, the likeness beginning to loosen. Matisse is still describing a face, but he has stopped being polite about it.

Medium Bronze · Dimensions 10 3/8 x 8 1/4 x 9 5/8" (26.2 x 21 x 24.5 cm) · Credit Gift of Sidney Janis

Hanging beside it in Gallery 506: Jeannette (I), Jeannette (III)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Paul Robeson, Ivory Coast Baulé, Jean Crotti's Bust of Duchamp, The Jester, The Serenity of the Scholar, Self-Portrait

More by Henri Matisse here: The Back (I), The Back (II), The Back (III), The Back (IV), Tiari, Dance (I)